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S4 Ep18: Off The Bench: Locking in Liverpool · FPL Pod

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this week's Off the Bench podcast from
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Speaker 1: the Premier League. I'm Sam from FPR family.
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Speaker 2: Hey Sam, and I'm press Pras.
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Speaker 1: It was a big week in FPR this week, with
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Speaker 1: many managers expecting very big things from their teams, especially
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Speaker 1: those that own Jel Pedro and Cole Palmer, who were
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Speaker 1: the most transferred in ahead of Chelsea's match against Burnley,
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Speaker 1: But for Palmer's owners it ended very much in disappointment.
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Speaker 1: Game Week twenty eight was also the week that we
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Speaker 1: passed a thousand defensive contribution returns for the season, meaning
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Speaker 1: that over two thousand defensive contribution points have now been
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Speaker 1: awarded in the game. But it was really low scoring.
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Speaker 1: How was your week, Pras.
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Speaker 2: It was one of those weeks where I felt like
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Speaker 2: I got away because I didn't have the aforementioned Jo
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Speaker 2: Pedrou and Palmer, so going into the burn I was
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Speaker 2: a little bit nervous with just Enzo. They disappointed and
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Speaker 2: ultimately I got forty seven points, which was just enough
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Speaker 2: for a green arrow and pretty much carried by Virgil
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Speaker 2: van Dyke and we'll talk about him in a second.
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Speaker 2: But to honor the defensive contributions, I got none from
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Speaker 2: my defenders, So who's that?
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Speaker 1: Do you know what? Your game week sounds very similar
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Speaker 1: to mine because I was in the same spot. I
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Speaker 1: didn't have jarped Joe, I didn't have col Palmer, and
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Speaker 1: I was terrified about that Chelsea game. I just had
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Speaker 1: Enzo Fernandez, who I really wanted to sell, but you
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Speaker 1: can't sell ahead of the game at home to Burnley,
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Speaker 1: so I thought, well, yeah, one more week. But I
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Speaker 1: bought him Virgil van Dyke this week and he did
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Speaker 1: save my game week in the same way that it
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Speaker 1: sounds like he did yours. I also managed to bench Cinesi,
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Speaker 1: so that was fun for his clean sheeet because I
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Speaker 1: just didn't see that coming, to be honest. Forty two
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Speaker 1: for me, it's a very very small red, but the
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Speaker 1: first red I've had in weeks now, so I was
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Speaker 1: on a bit of a hot streak and it's a
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Speaker 1: bit annoying to see that little red one appear in
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Speaker 1: that long list of greens. But alas, I still like
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Speaker 1: it should have been a lot better. The team on
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Speaker 1: paper should have done a hell of a lot better
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Speaker 1: than it did do. But there we are, and it
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Speaker 1: has been a bit of a difficult season for me.
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Speaker 1: And I think for you as well, which is why
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Speaker 1: I'm actually really looking forward to the launch of the
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Speaker 1: Adobe Express Badge League for Game Week twenty eight. All
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Speaker 1: managers who have created a team badge either in the
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Speaker 1: Premier League GAP or on the website will automatically be
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Speaker 1: entered into a new league with some fantastic prizes to
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Speaker 1: be won. The scoring starts from zero in Game Week
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Speaker 1: twenty eight, hurrah, So it will be a great way
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Speaker 1: to track our progress over the running and the manger
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Speaker 1: of the season. But that does mean as if I'm
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Speaker 1: going to win the Adobe Express bad League, I need
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Speaker 1: to start getting my team right and so Gay Week
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Speaker 1: twenty eight feels like it's going to be really important.
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Speaker 1: So let's reflect on game Week twenty seven and make
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Speaker 1: sure that we get our teams set up in the
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Speaker 1: best way possible for this running. Shall we start with
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Speaker 1: Chelsea then, given that we both only had Enzo Fernandez
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Speaker 1: and their assets were incredibly pop pillar heading into this week, Yes,
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Speaker 1: let's do that. Worried like I was when Joe Pedro
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Speaker 1: gets that goal in the fourth minute and thinking, oh
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Speaker 1: my goodness, this is going to end in tears for
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Speaker 1: us non owners and and the owners probably thinking the
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Speaker 1: complete opposite. This is going to be an absolute hole.
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Speaker 2: It's it's it's the timing of it, right. I mean
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Speaker 2: you just the game weeks just started in three minutes
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Speaker 2: and you're like, here we go. Jao Pedro probably assisted
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Speaker 2: by Palmer. It wasn't, of course, but you know those
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Speaker 2: two have been combining really well, whether it's for penalties
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Speaker 2: or other other open play goals. And it was like, yes,
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Speaker 2: Enzo's just watching from the sideline. So I was exactly
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Speaker 2: in your position where in the end I was very
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Speaker 2: relieved that jah Pedro only got the goal, only one
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Speaker 2: bonus point, and essentially Palmer was unlucky because he had
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Speaker 2: that one on one which poc Ron was gifted to him,
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Speaker 2: which he didn't take advantage of. And now they go
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Speaker 2: into playing Arsenal in an away game, which is not
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Speaker 2: that easy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And it was one of those where I
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Speaker 1: was looking at the fixture last week thinking probably should
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Speaker 1: get jar ped or Cole Palmer, but it feels like
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Speaker 1: it's too late because then I look at the fixtures
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Speaker 1: that they have both of the weekend and also in
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Speaker 1: the midweek round coming up, and neither of them are
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Speaker 1: particularly great games. And you know, I think most managers,
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Speaker 1: if you have them and you're planning to try and
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Speaker 1: play through in game week thirty one, then you might
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Speaker 1: be in a position where you're thinking, well, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to hold my Chelsea assets. But they're certainly not one
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Speaker 1: of those teams that will be looking to target. Interesting
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Speaker 1: that they've now dropped seventeen points from winning positions at
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Speaker 1: home in the Premier League this season. That's more than
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Speaker 1: any other side. And to be honest, they were a
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Speaker 1: little bit lucky right at the end of this game
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Speaker 1: to come away with the one point that they did,
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Speaker 1: because it could very easy have gone differently. I guess
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Speaker 1: the other thing that we need to talk about is
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Speaker 1: the Chelsea defense because they have been really popular. The
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Speaker 1: likes of chaliber and of course Robert Sanchez and goal
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Speaker 1: have been really heavily owned by FPR managers over the
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Speaker 1: last few weeks and when those clean sheets stick, it
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Speaker 1: really hurts for those managers that don't have them. But
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Speaker 1: actually they haven't been sticking. We've been seeing this odd
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Speaker 1: goal conceded here or there. It's not been brilliant for
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Speaker 1: Chelsea defensively, so do they also look like a quite
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Speaker 1: a hard sound now heading into the next couple of fixtures.
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Speaker 2: I think in general, yes, you can start to come
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Speaker 2: up your Chelsea picks. Now, it's all of these things
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Speaker 2: are very team dependent on what else do you have
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Speaker 2: as a problem in your team. But when I look
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Speaker 2: at Chelsea defense, I mean to play Burnley, Leeds Wolves
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Speaker 2: in west Ham in your last four games and not
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Speaker 2: have a single clean sheet, that's I mean, you can
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Speaker 2: say unlucky, slash, it's just you know, it's not ideal
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Speaker 2: at all. And their numbers have not been that great
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Speaker 2: now in in terms of extra conceded they have all
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Speaker 2: been around one. So it's not like they have come
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Speaker 2: away saying, you know, they should have kept those clean sheets.
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Speaker 2: We were saying this about vandyk by the way, three
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Speaker 2: four weeks ago, where he was a little bit unlucky
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Speaker 2: to concede, but it wasn't the case for Chelsea and
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Speaker 2: a big reason for this is set pieces. They obviously
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Speaker 2: conceded that that corner. In the end, they are now
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Speaker 2: the bottom team in the Premier League for xt conceded
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Speaker 2: from set plays, which is a remind Arckable's stat, which
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Speaker 2: is fourteen goals conceded or fourteen XG conceded from set
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Speaker 2: place and it's not ideal when you're playing Arsenal as
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Speaker 2: your next.
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Speaker 1: Week as well for Gabrielle, doesn't it exactly which was Las? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, and we'll talk about Arsenal a little bit later.
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Speaker 1: But Rice is on my potential well he is on
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Speaker 1: my cell list over the next few weeks, because obviously
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Speaker 1: there's the blank coming up. But those XG numbers from
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Speaker 1: set pieces for Chelsea was making me kind of go, oh,
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Speaker 1: maybe I should just give Declan Rice one more week,
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Speaker 1: because BlimE me, they are really struggling from set pieces.
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Speaker 1: And who's the one team you don't want to come
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Speaker 1: up against when you're struggling defending set pieces, Well, of
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Speaker 1: course it's Arsenal. Before we move on, I think we
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Speaker 1: just give a little shout out to Fleming, who was
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Speaker 1: playing ninety minutes for the first time since game Week
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Speaker 1: thirteen in this one, scored his six goal of the season,
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Speaker 1: picks up three bonus points and look, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: not for a minute suggesting that you invest in any
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Speaker 1: Burnley assets, but he is ticking over Nicety and so
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Speaker 1: if you are looking for a kind of cheap forward
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Speaker 1: in the game, you could do a lot worse, I
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Speaker 1: think than having somebody like him if you're reshuffling the
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Speaker 1: budgets around. So yeah, but I don't think there's anyone
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Speaker 1: else at Bernie. I mean, obviously, if you've got Debravka
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Speaker 1: you hold as a second goalkeeper, he's great. But otherwise,
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Speaker 1: no real interest in Bernie assets right now.
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Speaker 2: I don't think, not really. But it's been a tough
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Speaker 2: season for forwards right so whenever there's any gems emerging
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Speaker 2: in the forward slot, we're all very interesting because we
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Speaker 2: want to spend as little as possible for players who
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Speaker 2: get goals. And yeah, Fleming looks like a good option.
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Speaker 2: We've talked about others in the past and this podcast,
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Speaker 2: like dcl who are showing potential. But yes, it's been
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Speaker 2: a tough season for forwards in fbield.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's go from one end of the forward
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Speaker 1: spectrum to the other and Earlin Harlan and Manchester City.
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Speaker 1: I try to be brave in this game week Pras
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Speaker 1: and move the armband away from Harlan and put it
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Speaker 1: on some meno because I did think that Manchester City
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Speaker 1: would try and use this as an opportunity to get
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Speaker 1: a March on Arsenal they were playing ahead of them.
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Speaker 1: Newcastle have been away and Azerbaijan over the midweek playing
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Speaker 1: in the Champions League, and though they did incredibly well,
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Speaker 1: I did think that the travel might have an impact
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Speaker 1: on the way that Newcastle will play. It was a
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Speaker 1: home fixture. I didn't get an attacking turn out of Semeno,
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Speaker 1: but I did get defensive contribution points. Now that was
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Speaker 1: the second time in a home match this season he's
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Speaker 1: got them against Newcastle, because of course he picked them
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Speaker 1: up for Bournemouth earlier on in the season. I did
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Speaker 1: feel a little bit aggrieved though, because Antoine Semeno really
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Speaker 1: should have got more points from this game. There were
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Speaker 1: a number of moments where Marmo she's in on goal
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Speaker 1: and all he's got to do is play se menu
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Speaker 1: in and I was screaming at my TV malmost pass
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Speaker 1: it to Semeno and he didn't. He took the shan himself.
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Speaker 1: It is a bit annoying when Marmose plays both for
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Speaker 1: Harlan and for Semeno, because Marmoo she is that greedy
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Speaker 1: striker that actually we often love owning in FPL because
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Speaker 1: they take the opportunities themselves. But when you've got the
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Speaker 1: other players playing alongside him. BlimE me, it was a
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Speaker 1: bit of a frustrating watched this one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear what you're saying. As soon as I
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Speaker 2: saw the team lineup it was a little bit of
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Speaker 2: a different shape than the more usual four two two
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Speaker 2: two that Pep's been putting out, and so Marmoush did
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Speaker 2: make that big difference both for Semenu and Harland, and
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Speaker 2: it ultimately also affects the minutes right because in some games,
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Speaker 2: and I don't know, not speculating, but you know, for Harland,
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Speaker 2: for Semeno, are they going to be playing consistent nineteen
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Speaker 2: minutes when Marmosh is getting more minutes around Forden is
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Speaker 2: going to get some minutes at some point he wants
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Speaker 2: that spot in the England team as well. You know,
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Speaker 2: you've got share Key as well, who did so well
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Speaker 2: in the middle part of the season, but now it
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Speaker 2: doesn't seem to be starting again. So that competition in
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Speaker 2: that attack is just very difficult to predict. But for
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Speaker 2: the moment, I think Semnia is a great pick. And
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Speaker 2: again to celebrate thousand Deaf Con points, you've got a
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Speaker 2: captain return as your Deaf Con. So That's never a
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Speaker 2: bad thing getting four points as a return. But I
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Speaker 2: think in general Newcastle did put up a good display here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think for Harlan, I thought I was
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Speaker 1: getting away with Albit because he was just getting the
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Speaker 1: one point more for a while, and then there was
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Speaker 1: a bonus point that gets added, so eventually it became
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Speaker 1: two points. And actually that was the difference between a
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Speaker 1: green and a red arrow for me. Had I captain Tarland,
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Speaker 1: it would have been a green arrow. With the ce
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Speaker 1: menu captain those four points lost effectively, then that's what
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Speaker 1: caused the red. Let's talk about Harlan for a second
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Speaker 1: before we get to Nico O'Reilly. I think he deserves
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Speaker 1: a whole chat by himself, but let's start with Harlan.
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Speaker 1: Just one open play goal now in ten, but in
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Speaker 1: this one he did have four shots. His creativity is
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Speaker 1: definitely growing. The assist potential is coming from him, maybe
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Speaker 1: because he's not that kind of target. I mean, still
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Speaker 1: is the target man up top, but he's not quite
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Speaker 1: playing in that position. With the new players that has
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Speaker 1: around him, you've got a little bit more ability for
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Speaker 1: him to be creative for them. I think I saw
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Speaker 1: more from Harlan in this one than I have for
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Speaker 1: a few weeks though, in terms of the potential returns
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Speaker 1: and with the fixtures coming the way that they are
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Speaker 1: for Manchester City over the next few weeks before their
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Speaker 1: potential blank game week in game week thirty one, he
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Speaker 1: feels like an important own and for those managers that
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Speaker 1: have solved, I think I'd be really wary of what
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Speaker 1: to do now without Harland in my team.
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Speaker 2: I think there's two things to it, right, I mean,
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Speaker 2: has there been a drop off in the last six weeks, Yes,
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Speaker 2: but can he still go big in the next three
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Speaker 2: because of the things you mentioned the signs were coming
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Speaker 2: back against Newcastle also yes. Then you also have to
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Speaker 2: put into context. Let's say you sold Harland, whould you
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Speaker 2: go for Let's say last week you did Palmer because
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Speaker 2: you wanted that captaincy. Now Palmer has difficult fixtures. You
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Speaker 2: went for Salah. Well, we'll talk about Liverpool and how
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Speaker 2: peripheral Salah was in that game. So it's really about
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Speaker 2: do you actually need that money to sell Holland? Because
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Speaker 2: Holland can still do well, he can still be a
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Speaker 2: captaincy option. You don't have to captain him like you
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Speaker 2: didn't last week, so I think there's a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a strategic discussion to be had with holland the
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Speaker 2: fact that there's a possibility of him blanking three week
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Speaker 2: game weeks from now. It's not guaranteed, but it's a
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Speaker 2: possibility that also plays into people's mind. So if you've
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Speaker 2: sold him, I think it's fine. It's what you do
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Speaker 2: with that money that counts. But if you have him, yes,
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Speaker 2: I agree with you completely that I would keep the faith.
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Speaker 2: He does have good fixtures coming up. Of course, the
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Speaker 2: next week is leads away, which is not ideal, but
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Speaker 2: he could still do well. Man City are still expected
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Speaker 2: to do well. There's a context of the whole league
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Speaker 2: at play here where it's getting close and he's going
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Speaker 2: to get he's going to score, So that's where I
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Speaker 2: am with Harland. I think Pep also praising him at
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Speaker 2: the end of the game was also a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a carrot that you know, don't worry, Howland, I
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Speaker 2: still love you, and you know, I think Pep said
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Speaker 2: he was his man of the match, So I think
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Speaker 2: the signs are there and don't be surprised if he
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Speaker 2: gets that brac or hatrick in the next three or
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Speaker 2: four games.
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Speaker 1: Okay, here comes the Nico O'Reilly Appreciation Society. He has
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Speaker 1: been sold by over one million managers since gaing week twenty.
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Speaker 1: This was his best ever fl hole. We had two
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Speaker 1: goals and of course all three bonus points as a result.
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Speaker 1: As a Mark Gayey owner, I was so frustrated by
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Speaker 1: this one because position of Nicko O'Reilly, the role he
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Speaker 1: is now being asked to play in that Manchester City team.
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Speaker 1: I mean he was up ahead of Harlem at points
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Speaker 1: during this game, playing in a more advanced role. I
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Speaker 1: can't see anything but goals for him coming over the
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Speaker 1: next few weeks. If he continues to play him in
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Speaker 1: this advanced position, then he's basically a gift, isn't he
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Speaker 1: Because he's cheaper than all of the other Manchester City
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Speaker 1: defenders that you might want to own. He is attacking
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Speaker 1: at will. Manchester City's defensive numbers are looking better in
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Speaker 1: recent weeks as well, and of course because he's playing
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Speaker 1: out of position, if they do keep that clean sheet,
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Speaker 1: you would benefit from the full four clean sheet points,
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Speaker 1: and because of that, he is more likely to pick
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Speaker 1: up the bonus points as well. So it feels like
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Speaker 1: a whole everything's kind of coming together with the exception
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Speaker 1: of this unknown game Week thirty one that's kind of
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Speaker 1: playing out in the background. Because my plan, as people
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Speaker 1: will have heard, I'm sure on the official problem we've
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Speaker 1: been talking over the last few weeks, always been to
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Speaker 1: continue to hold my Manchester City assets because if they
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Speaker 1: do blank, there's going to them be a double game week.
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Speaker 1: But Nicko O'Reilly is putting his hand up and going,
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Speaker 1: I think you could sell Mark gay he ahead of
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Speaker 1: the blank game week because you can just bring me
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Speaker 1: back in after the blank. I wish I could bring
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Speaker 1: him in right now though, because I do think over
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Speaker 1: the next three weeks we could see some massive returns
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Speaker 1: from O'Riley.
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Speaker 2: I have to start with it. Rant I owned him
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Speaker 2: for about ten weeks. Off those the ones that stick
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Speaker 2: out in memory was a fifty ninth minute sub when
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Speaker 2: they kept a clean sheet him coming on the eighty
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Speaker 2: ninth minute and getting a minus one point and blocking
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Speaker 2: a clean sheet for me and then just generally losing
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Speaker 2: a clean sheet. I think he lost one on the
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Speaker 2: ninety fifth minute for me as well. So now that
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Speaker 2: that is out of the way, yes, I think he's incredible.
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Speaker 2: I think if you're playing in that eight position, and
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Speaker 2: it's not just eight, it's actually the box crashing eight,
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Speaker 2: which is the guy who does join the attack pretty
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Speaker 2: much every single time. Makes you an incredible pick. So
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Speaker 2: if if your belief is that his minutes continue to
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Speaker 2: remain how they are, and there's no reason not to
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Speaker 2: because of his form. But I will add a little
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Speaker 2: bit of a butt here, which is that the MIDWEK
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Speaker 2: games are back right now. Man City had a mid
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Speaker 2: week off just before this. They have a midweek off
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Speaker 2: again after the Newcastle game because they were not in
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Speaker 2: the qualification rounds in the Champions League. However, from this
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Speaker 2: weekend they go again weekend midweek. Weken midweek now for
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Speaker 2: the forstabled future. So when that happens, we've been here
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Speaker 2: before for the last multiple years with Pep that you
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Speaker 2: just never know. I mean, ten weeks ago we were
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Speaker 2: talking about Forden being the ninety minutes man playing every
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Speaker 2: single game. Where is he now? We were talking about
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Speaker 2: Cherokee six weeks ago as the guy who's getting a
15:42
Speaker 2: lot of attacking returns being involved in the attack. Where
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Speaker 2: is he now? So that's my only caveat that you
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Speaker 2: just never know. When Rinders starts to get a couple
15:51
Speaker 2: of games and then you start to panic or is
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Speaker 2: Lekoraly going to start this game week or not? In isolation, though,
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Speaker 2: I think he's a fantastic pick. These are the unicorn
15:59
Speaker 2: picks we love in FBL. Who can get you clean
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Speaker 2: sheet points, can get you goals, not just assists. And yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think it's perfect if you have him, very jealous.
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Speaker 2: If you don't, you can think about getting him. But
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Speaker 2: there are other defenders you can also get.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Newcastle for a second, because we also
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Speaker 1: had a defender scoring in this one for them with
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Speaker 1: his first goal of the season for Llwis Hall. I
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Speaker 1: don't think Newcastle or a team that I'm really seriously
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Speaker 1: considering investing in at the moment. I think that the
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Speaker 1: way that the fixtures are for other teams they look
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Speaker 1: better than the Newcastle ones. I mean, it's Everton up
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Speaker 1: next at the weekend before Manchester United, two are in
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Speaker 1: great form at the moment, and then it's Chelsea before
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Speaker 1: the derby against Sunderland, the second derby of the season.
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Speaker 1: Now they want some revenge I'm sure for what for
16:45
Speaker 1: last time, But nonetheless those next four don't look brilliant
16:50
Speaker 1: from a Newcastle perspective, and despite the fact that you
16:53
Speaker 1: would expect them comfortably to go through in the Champions League,
16:57
Speaker 1: they still have another match to play out against as
17:00
Speaker 1: a Baijan. Now, I would expect that Adihaw will rotate
17:02
Speaker 1: that scored quite heavily for that one, given the advantage
17:05
Speaker 1: that they have going into the game. But nonetheless there's
17:08
Speaker 1: still another fixture this week, and then the weekend and
17:10
Speaker 1: then the MIDWEK round. As you say, is there any
17:13
Speaker 1: interested in any Newcast assets at the minute, because for
17:16
Speaker 1: me since gamaras his injury, I've lost kind of interest
17:20
Speaker 1: in investing in Newcastle from an FPL point of view.
17:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing imminent, But I do think for people maybe
17:27
Speaker 2: like myself, for looking to Wildcatt in Gamemick thirty two,
17:30
Speaker 2: their home game against some lend in Gamemick thirty one,
17:32
Speaker 2: presents a good opportunity to what we call dead end,
17:35
Speaker 2: which is just get that player for that one week
17:36
Speaker 2: and then wildcut them out. So I think that would
17:38
Speaker 2: be the only way where I can see myself owning
17:40
Speaker 2: a Newcastle player in the next three to four weeks.
17:43
Speaker 2: Later on we'll see what doubles in Blank's picture looks
17:46
Speaker 2: like but yeah, I think Lewis Hall Gordon keeps coming
17:49
Speaker 2: back to in the picture because he scored those four
17:51
Speaker 2: goals incredibly in the mid week in the Champions League,
17:54
Speaker 2: like he always does in the Champions League, not in
17:56
Speaker 2: the Premier League. And yeah, I think those are the
17:59
Speaker 2: two that stick out. I think the other interesting play
18:02
Speaker 2: with them is just watch Walter Martin's position. He's playing
18:06
Speaker 2: a lot more in the midfield, which allows in this
18:08
Speaker 2: game Ilanga and Gordon to almost be the auxiliary strikers
18:12
Speaker 2: something to monitor in terms of their ship. And if
18:14
Speaker 2: that continues, Gordon becomes even better, but his minutes are
18:17
Speaker 2: never that great. So I think those are the two
18:20
Speaker 2: takeaways for me.
18:21
Speaker 1: All Right, it's time to talk about Spurs. As much
18:24
Speaker 1: as I would love to not talk about this game,
18:26
Speaker 1: I think we mostly have to focus in on it
18:27
Speaker 1: from an Arsenal perspective, of course, because they are one
18:30
Speaker 1: of the teams that we were heavily invested in, and
18:32
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks with the double that
18:34
Speaker 1: they had last time round, we were kind of like, right,
18:37
Speaker 1: we have to be heavily invested. And then the whole
18:39
Speaker 1: conversation going into game week twenty seven was what do
18:43
Speaker 1: you do with these Arsenal assets? Do you keep them?
18:45
Speaker 1: Do you sell them? Because of course the blank is
18:47
Speaker 1: coming for them, guaranteed blank in thirty one. Obviously, I
18:53
Speaker 1: was at the Spur Stadium on Sunday afternoon watching this
18:56
Speaker 1: one and it was an interesting game to watch from
19:00
Speaker 1: I was going to say from a kind of neutral perspective,
19:02
Speaker 1: but clearly I was not neutral in the North London
19:04
Speaker 1: Derby anything but but I was very impressed by some
19:07
Speaker 1: of what was going on for Arsenal, and particularly jo
19:10
Speaker 1: Cerez's performance in this one, very very impressive. His movement
19:15
Speaker 1: on the pitch, the way that he kind of dealt
19:18
Speaker 1: with getting in behind that that spurs defense, which is
19:21
Speaker 1: vulnerable at the best of times, but he exploited that
19:24
Speaker 1: really well. A couple of goals in this one. He
19:27
Speaker 1: was quite a popular cell this week because he didn't
19:30
Speaker 1: perform in that double game week that we had. It
19:34
Speaker 1: is it's quite interesting to know what to do with
19:36
Speaker 1: your Arsenal assets now, isn't it? Because last week I
19:38
Speaker 1: thought about it. I did sell Timber this time around,
19:41
Speaker 1: but replaced him with Virgil. So I'll take the loss
19:43
Speaker 1: of the assist, particularly given that he was subbed on
19:46
Speaker 1: fifty six minutes and so actually only picked up three.
19:50
Speaker 1: But is interesting with Arsenal because we talked about Chelsea
19:54
Speaker 1: earlier and their vulnerability, and I do think that the
19:56
Speaker 1: way that this Arsenal team played against Spurs at the
19:58
Speaker 1: weekend and the momentum that they will now take from
20:01
Speaker 1: this game could mean that these Arsenal assets actually a
20:04
Speaker 1: really good hold for the game against Chelsea.
20:06
Speaker 2: Yes, I do agree with you, and it'll be a
20:10
Speaker 2: first midweek off for Arsenal after a very long time
20:12
Speaker 2: because obviously the previous midweek they played their double second
20:15
Speaker 2: of the double game B twenty six. So I think
20:18
Speaker 2: it's come at a nice time, this comprehensive win. And yeah,
20:21
Speaker 2: Asdam put in a great performance. I think they were
20:25
Speaker 2: a little bit vulnerable at the back, but I don't
20:28
Speaker 2: want to call that vulnerability. It was more that it
20:30
Speaker 2: was mistakes. But if you look at open play in general,
20:32
Speaker 2: I think they controlled the game really well. I think
20:35
Speaker 2: the fact that Spurs went out with the three at
20:38
Speaker 2: the back helped your careers in a way because he
20:40
Speaker 2: could pick sort of he was more stationed closer to Danzo,
20:44
Speaker 2: who's the weaker of the central defenders than the Van
20:46
Speaker 2: der Venn and Sokker and Martinelli stretched out the pitch
20:51
Speaker 2: really well, so I think it worked out in their
20:53
Speaker 2: favor almost. But you know, Spurs are also still learning
20:55
Speaker 2: with their new manager in terms of how they shape
20:58
Speaker 2: up and how they transition in these tougher games. We'll
21:01
Speaker 2: judge Spurs after they play the easier fixtures or relatively
21:05
Speaker 2: easier fixtures. But but just finishing on Arsenal, I do
21:09
Speaker 2: think they're an easy hold. Of course, nobody has to
21:12
Speaker 2: be held. If there's a confirmed blank game be coming up,
21:15
Speaker 2: there are other opportunities. But I think if you have
21:17
Speaker 2: any of Rice, any of their defenders, I think this
21:21
Speaker 2: week you can definitely hold off because they will be
21:24
Speaker 2: right up for that Chelsea game.
21:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. From a Spurs perspective, I think you're right.
21:28
Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot has been said about
21:30
Speaker 1: Spurs and injury crisis, and the defense was very much
21:33
Speaker 1: makeshift at the weekend. Obviously Vanderveen was their captain. The
21:35
Speaker 1: cyber MAO still suspended dragonson played and actually I thought
21:40
Speaker 1: did okay, but was definitely the one that they were
21:42
Speaker 1: targeting because he isn't as quick as as vander benn
21:45
Speaker 1: At getting back. We will have a number of first
21:49
Speaker 1: team as back hopefully for the game on Sunday against Fulham.
21:54
Speaker 1: Expecting to see the likes of Porro back in the
21:56
Speaker 1: in the in the mix, which will help in terms
22:00
Speaker 1: of how Tudor wants to set this team up. Little
22:03
Speaker 1: shout out to Cola Moruani up top. He started the game,
22:07
Speaker 1: I think mostly because Selanki had a sore throat that
22:10
Speaker 1: we was reported earlier on in the week. Otherwise, I
22:13
Speaker 1: think Solanki probably starts that game. But Coole Mowani has
22:16
Speaker 1: worked with Tudor before a Juventus did incredibly well there scores.
22:21
Speaker 1: The goal has another one which in my mind was
22:24
Speaker 1: quite harshly ruled out.
22:25
Speaker 2: I was like, I was reading for that one.
22:27
Speaker 1: I was like, oh really, I mean, yes, he has
22:30
Speaker 1: two hands on him and by the letter of the law,
22:32
Speaker 1: yes it gets ruled out. Okay, fine, but he did
22:35
Speaker 1: barely touch him. It's not like he shoved him over.
22:37
Speaker 1: He put his hands on him. He fell over, Which
22:39
Speaker 1: is you know you're going to do that, I guess,
22:43
Speaker 1: But it's very difficult, I think, to know who's going
22:45
Speaker 1: to start up top for Spurs, and I think with
22:46
Speaker 1: the fixtures that Spurs have, yes, there's some better ones
22:50
Speaker 1: coming and over the coming weeks there's some There's definitely
22:53
Speaker 1: some defenses that Spurs could get at, but who starts
22:56
Speaker 1: in that forward position. We saw rechardlesson come back. Selanki
22:58
Speaker 1: came on for half an hour. Calimuani's there and around.
23:02
Speaker 1: Hopefully at some point in the next month or so
23:05
Speaker 1: we're gonna see the return of Mohamma Kudas, which will
23:08
Speaker 1: make a massive difference as Spurs not to get players back.
23:11
Speaker 1: Maybe those are the moments then where we want to
23:13
Speaker 1: start investing. But right now, steer clear and hold your
23:17
Speaker 1: Asenal assets, I think is what we learn from this one. Yeah,
23:20
Speaker 1: absolutely enough enough, let's not talk about Spurs anymore. Hopefully
23:25
Speaker 1: I'll have nicer things to say about them after the weekend.
23:28
Speaker 1: But let's move to Liverpool because this is a team
23:30
Speaker 1: that I do think that we want to be looking
23:32
Speaker 1: to target in on. We both have Virgil delighted to
23:36
Speaker 1: see that whole coming. Did you bring him in this
23:38
Speaker 1: week or did you also have him for the whole
23:39
Speaker 1: last week?
23:40
Speaker 2: I haven't had him since game week eleven.
23:43
Speaker 1: You deserve, then you deserved.
23:46
Speaker 2: The two weeks of every single week he was whether
23:49
Speaker 2: it's home to Burnley, it was home to Bulls, he
23:51
Speaker 2: kept conceding one goal, missing out on defensive contribution points
23:55
Speaker 2: by two or three points. This is where I mean,
23:58
Speaker 2: you can call it patients or stupidity, where if you
24:00
Speaker 2: hold on two players long enough they start to become good.
24:03
Speaker 2: And I do think that the goal was a little
24:06
Speaker 2: bit lucky in the sense of, you know, I mean,
24:09
Speaker 2: can we call it lucky? I suppose, so it came
24:11
Speaker 2: in the last minute, but the clean sheet certainly was
24:13
Speaker 2: lucky because for log of chances, yeah, exactly, exactly, so
24:18
Speaker 2: we take it.
24:19
Speaker 1: We definitely do. I mean, I've owned him for a
24:21
Speaker 1: little bit earlier on in the season. I bought him
24:23
Speaker 1: back for this week in replacement for Timber So I
24:26
Speaker 1: was thrilled about this because I thought, you know, this
24:28
Speaker 1: is a really good opportunity. I was obviously at the
24:31
Speaker 1: first stadium, so I didn't watch this game until later
24:33
Speaker 1: when I got back and I got home, and obviously
24:35
Speaker 1: he's a massive Liverpool fan and he was like, I
24:37
Speaker 1: don't know how we've cleaned heated in that game. I
24:39
Speaker 1: don't know how he called it a heist. That was
24:42
Speaker 1: his descriptive word for this game. He said, we've basically
24:44
Speaker 1: gone and robbed Nottingham Forest of three points and run
24:48
Speaker 1: away with them, because if anything, they deserve to win
24:50
Speaker 1: the game. So I feel like I was maybe a
24:52
Speaker 1: little bit lucky with the Virgil. The Virgil pick, but
24:56
Speaker 1: you you know, I picked him because the fixtures for
24:58
Speaker 1: Liverpool moving forward are fantastic. I appreciate what you've just
25:01
Speaker 1: said about the deaf cond dot coming in over a
25:03
Speaker 1: few weeks, but he always has the scope in him
25:05
Speaker 1: to pick up those defensive contribution points and we've seen
25:09
Speaker 1: the aerial threat that he offers from set pieces and
25:12
Speaker 1: then alongside the potential for just being involved in attacking return.
25:16
Speaker 1: So Virgil feels like a really good pick over the
25:19
Speaker 1: next few weeks, and far better than any of the
25:20
Speaker 1: other Liverpool defenders to own. The transfer that I very
25:25
Speaker 1: nearly made heading into this one was to bring in
25:28
Speaker 1: Florian Verts. I really wanted him. I've been waxing lyrical
25:31
Speaker 1: about him for a couple of weeks now about how
25:33
Speaker 1: much I like him, ever since I sold him to
25:35
Speaker 1: bring in Bruno. Finlander's back in game week or I
25:39
Speaker 1: can't even remember when it was now like three or
25:41
Speaker 1: four game weeks ago when the Manchester United fixtures swung
25:45
Speaker 1: and I've wanted a route back to verts ever since,
25:47
Speaker 1: and my route back to verts has always been from
25:49
Speaker 1: Enzo or Rice. And obviously I couldn't Celenzo because it
25:53
Speaker 1: was Burnley, and despite wanting to and Rice, I just
25:56
Speaker 1: kind of felt like I looked at the XGC numbers
25:59
Speaker 1: from Spurs from set pieces and thought, I don't think
26:02
Speaker 1: I can get rid of Rice going into this one.
26:05
Speaker 1: I think I've got to hold him, so maybe I'll
26:07
Speaker 1: just give one more week to those two bringing verts afterwards.
26:11
Speaker 1: In the end, that was lucky for me because obviously
26:13
Speaker 1: he pulls out of the warm up with a back injury.
26:15
Speaker 1: We don't really know what that looks like. Yets lots
26:18
Speaker 1: seemed to suggest that it probably wasn't too bad, but
26:21
Speaker 1: the trouble with a back injury is you just don't
26:24
Speaker 1: really know until you start looking at it a little
26:26
Speaker 1: bit further. So, well, guess we're going to have to
26:28
Speaker 1: wait and see. No midweek action for Liverpool this week,
26:31
Speaker 1: so it will be waiting right through till Friday's press
26:34
Speaker 1: conference to find out what's going on with verts? Is
26:38
Speaker 1: it possible to go for dom Sa Boslai instead, because
26:42
Speaker 1: we do know that whatever come, what made dom Bosi
26:44
Speaker 1: is going to start. The problem we have with him
26:47
Speaker 1: is is he going to start right back? Is he
26:49
Speaker 1: going to start in the center of midfield, which is
26:51
Speaker 1: where we want him. I don't want him starting a
26:53
Speaker 1: right back and I don't think the Liverpool fans do
26:55
Speaker 1: either really because he's so important. When he moved into
26:58
Speaker 1: the midfield, Liverpool looked a lot better. Yeah, he is
27:03
Speaker 1: on set paces as well, so there's another route to
27:05
Speaker 1: points ifs isn't available. I could see myself going from
27:09
Speaker 1: Enzo to suppose lionstead yeap.
27:13
Speaker 2: So here's here's my perspective on this. In terms of words,
27:17
Speaker 2: him not being there just affects everybody like they were lost,
27:20
Speaker 2: especially in that first half, on what to do with
27:23
Speaker 2: the ball, including with Salah by the way, because we
27:25
Speaker 2: don't see the same Liverpool where it just get the
27:27
Speaker 2: ball to Salah. He's going to take on his defender
27:29
Speaker 2: and then cross and create a chance or shoot. It's
27:32
Speaker 2: just not the way Liverpool are operating at the moment.
27:34
Speaker 2: They go a lot of you know, they go centrally,
27:36
Speaker 2: Gatpo hasn't been as effective. So without Words, it was
27:40
Speaker 2: it was just not working. And I, as an eqitk
27:42
Speaker 2: owner who can we can also talk about, was just
27:45
Speaker 2: watching this and going why do I own akitk if
27:47
Speaker 2: Words is not playing? So even I, even though I
27:50
Speaker 2: will not own words, I'm wishing that Words is back.
27:53
Speaker 2: But to complete the words discussion, even if let's say
27:55
Speaker 2: Slot says that he's he's better Liverpool play on a Saturday,
28:00
Speaker 2: and then they play on a Tuesday, because as we said,
28:01
Speaker 2: gave me twenty nine is a mid week that night,
28:04
Speaker 2: So does he start both? Does he get ninety minutes
28:06
Speaker 2: in both? It just puts into question the whole thing.
28:10
Speaker 2: Then coming to Suboslai, I think we know that Frimpong
28:13
Speaker 2: could be back, Gomez could be back, and the fact
28:17
Speaker 2: that you know they reverted to the means. So first
28:20
Speaker 2: thirty minutes Subosli started it right back. Then he then
28:23
Speaker 2: Jones came into right back, or they were interchanging a
28:25
Speaker 2: lot more in Suboslai was getting into the central spaces.
28:27
Speaker 2: So I think subostl is a good pick if Words
28:30
Speaker 2: is out, if he's in the he's still an okay pick.
28:34
Speaker 2: So I'm not saying he's a bad pick regardless, but
28:37
Speaker 2: I think he would be much better if it would
28:39
Speaker 2: be words who's out and Frimpog is fit. That's what
28:42
Speaker 2: I feel for Liverpool in general. But I think with
28:44
Speaker 2: the fixtures that they have home to west Ham, away
28:48
Speaker 2: to Wolves, I think those two are just good to target,
28:50
Speaker 2: regardless of who you get.
28:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like Liverpool are an invest and I
28:55
Speaker 1: thought that Nottingham Forest were going to be a d
28:56
Speaker 1: invest to be honest, when I saw the new manager appointment,
28:59
Speaker 1: I was thinking, well, the key asset and notting and
29:02
Speaker 1: Forest so far this season has been Elliott Anderson. He's
29:04
Speaker 1: been this defensive contribution monster, constantly racking up the point
29:10
Speaker 1: but got them again in this one, by the way,
29:12
Speaker 1: the eleventh consecutive match in a row that he's done that.
29:14
Speaker 1: Three hundred and eighty one defensive contributions this season. He
29:18
Speaker 1: has got. No other player comes anywhere close and I
29:20
Speaker 1: wondered whether with the new manager in charge, we might
29:24
Speaker 1: see a more attacking Nottingham Forest side again, a bit
29:27
Speaker 1: more like we saw under Anipostacoglu, and maybe that might
29:32
Speaker 1: have a negative impact on Ellie Anderson. In fact, it didn't.
29:36
Speaker 1: In fact, I'd say it was quite the opposite. Actually
29:38
Speaker 1: we saw the still defensive securities of Ellie Anderson, still
29:42
Speaker 1: picking up the defensive contribution points, but also joining in
29:45
Speaker 1: the attack. So I think if you've got Elliott Anderson,
29:48
Speaker 1: he absolutely remains a hold now because of all of
29:52
Speaker 1: the teams that you have in the league, the ones
29:54
Speaker 1: that have got something to really fight for, they're the
29:56
Speaker 1: ones that you want to be investing in, Like you
29:58
Speaker 1: want to be investing in Manchester City and Arsenal and
30:01
Speaker 1: the title Charge. You want to be investing in the
30:04
Speaker 1: Manchester United, the Liverpools, the aston Viders, the Chelsea's, the
30:07
Speaker 1: ones that are competing for those Champions League spots and
30:10
Speaker 1: at the bottom, the teams that are fighting to survive.
30:15
Speaker 1: I feel like there's some good opportunities there, and Elliott
30:18
Speaker 1: Anderson now feels like a continued hold. And maybe if
30:21
Speaker 1: you want to change up the way that your investment
30:24
Speaker 1: looks in your team and you want to go for
30:25
Speaker 1: a cheaper fifth so that you can have three up top,
30:29
Speaker 1: maybe Elliot Anderson is exactly what we need.
30:33
Speaker 2: I don't disagree. I think he's been very consistent getting
30:35
Speaker 2: a four point floor every single game, and then anything
30:38
Speaker 2: else you get, whether that's bonus or an assist, just
30:41
Speaker 2: comes on top is amazing for any player. The only
30:45
Speaker 2: thing I would say is he was subbed off for
30:47
Speaker 2: the first time this season, which for people who focus
30:51
Speaker 2: fixate on expected minutes a lot, was a little bit
30:55
Speaker 2: of a yellow flag. I want to see it another
30:57
Speaker 2: couple of games and see is he getting subbed off earlier,
30:59
Speaker 2: because you know what happens when you get subbed off
31:00
Speaker 2: before eighteen minutes, your potential for defensive contribution comes down
31:04
Speaker 2: massively because there's so many of these defensive contributions are
31:07
Speaker 2: made in the final ten miutes. It didn't happen in
31:09
Speaker 2: this game. He got his defensive contributions and then was
31:11
Speaker 2: subbed off. It won't happen every single game, so that's
31:14
Speaker 2: something to monitor, I feel. But otherwise I think you know,
31:17
Speaker 2: he is competing now with some other very good mid
31:19
Speaker 2: priced midfielders, which you will talk about in the main part.
31:22
Speaker 2: I'm sure Dango Otara you're talking about taviniir or even Ryan.
31:27
Speaker 2: So there are players that you can get some upside
31:30
Speaker 2: with goals, that can compete with this floor that Elliott
31:33
Speaker 2: Anderson brings. With the defensive contributions.
31:36
Speaker 1: Well, let's move on to another couple of teams then
31:39
Speaker 1: have those options in Rayan at Bournemouth and also are
31:43
Speaker 1: kind of competing with Forrest Force staying in the Premier
31:46
Speaker 1: League next season in west Ham. I did not expect
31:49
Speaker 1: this game to play as a Neil noldor I bench
31:51
Speaker 1: CENESSI this week because west Ham have been playing incredibly
31:54
Speaker 1: well and Bournemouth have been chaos like brilliant games to watch,
31:58
Speaker 1: high scoring games, but no defensive security, not this time around.
32:03
Speaker 1: So the goalkeepers both covering themselves in glory in this one.
32:07
Speaker 1: Petrovich with a clean sheet, two bonus points, three saves
32:09
Speaker 1: He's made eighty three saves now this season, which only
32:12
Speaker 1: de Bravka can better. And then at the other end
32:15
Speaker 1: of the pitch we've got Hermanson, who has taken over
32:18
Speaker 1: as the west Ham number one, it seems in the
32:21
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, second double digit hall since he's
32:24
Speaker 1: now started starting for them in gamely twenty five, a
32:27
Speaker 1: clean sheet, five saves and three bonus points. So it
32:31
Speaker 1: was all about the goalkeepers in this one. They're not
32:33
Speaker 1: particularly heavily owned, although I know a certain Frenchman on
32:36
Speaker 1: the official pod who did play the Bournemouth goalkeeper this week,
32:39
Speaker 1: so he'll be waxing lyrical about him on Thursday, I'm sure.
32:43
Speaker 1: But it was a defensive It was defensively, particularly from
32:47
Speaker 1: a west Ham perspective, they were very, very good in
32:49
Speaker 1: this game, and I think west Ham will consider themselves
32:51
Speaker 1: incredibly unlucky that they didn't knock out that Bournemouth clean sheet.
32:57
Speaker 2: They were so close and conceding on most three expected goals.
33:01
Speaker 2: Is just you know, if you if you started a
33:03
Speaker 2: Bonemouth defender, I'm not jealous because I benched Hill, you
33:06
Speaker 2: bench SINESI it was it was lucky, right, I mean
33:10
Speaker 2: west Ham should have scored. Petrovich kept them in the
33:12
Speaker 2: game multiple times, and it does actually bode well for
33:17
Speaker 2: west Ham in general that their performances have taken a
33:19
Speaker 2: massive updack. But staying with Bonemouth for a second, I
33:24
Speaker 2: think their performance was typical of what they've shown us,
33:27
Speaker 2: which is defensively very poor away from home, but very
33:30
Speaker 2: good at home. And so it's a little bit of
33:33
Speaker 2: a jackul and Hyde situation going on at Bonnemouth, where
33:35
Speaker 2: you just play your Bonemouth defenders at home. You don't
33:39
Speaker 2: have to play them away from home. Obviously they get
33:41
Speaker 2: kept it lucky clean sheet in this one, but in
33:44
Speaker 2: general their attack still looks decent. They did create chances. Yes,
33:47
Speaker 2: west Ham were disciplined, but they did create chances. And
33:50
Speaker 2: the big one was for me that Tavinir also came
33:53
Speaker 2: back from an injury and looked fantastic in the final
33:56
Speaker 2: twenty thirty minutes that he that he got and that
33:58
Speaker 2: attack just clicks a lot better when teven years in
34:01
Speaker 2: it with the added flare that the Wiguos bring in
34:06
Speaker 2: Adli and Ryan who we talked about, So I think
34:08
Speaker 2: their attack looks good as well if you wanted to
34:10
Speaker 2: invest in.
34:11
Speaker 1: It's also really interesting though, isn't it, because with Tamnau
34:14
Speaker 1: coming back, you kind of have that, well, who's going
34:16
Speaker 1: to be the player that misses out in order for
34:19
Speaker 1: him to start the games and as a as somebody
34:24
Speaker 1: who's looking to change up the way that my midfield
34:26
Speaker 1: looks in the coming weeks. Rayane has been a player
34:29
Speaker 1: that I've been really scouting quite heavily. I also have
34:32
Speaker 1: Croopy Jr. As my third forward and I benched him
34:37
Speaker 1: this week thinking but I was really I was really
34:42
Speaker 1: on the fence about that because I kept saying, if
34:45
Speaker 1: I see the starting eleven and he's in it, I'm
34:47
Speaker 1: going to really regret this decision because the way that
34:50
Speaker 1: borne with the scoring goals and creating chances, I do
34:53
Speaker 1: think that there is a good opportunity for him to
34:57
Speaker 1: to really excel in this time. He'd been ninety minutes
35:00
Speaker 1: and he played the ninety minutes. So when Tavania came on,
35:03
Speaker 1: he didn't come on for ray Ann or for Creepy Junior.
35:07
Speaker 1: He came on Forever Nilsen. So there is a slight
35:10
Speaker 1: concern now going into the next few weeks as to
35:12
Speaker 1: where and how Bournemouth set up, because they do have
35:15
Speaker 1: a lot of really decent options in that forward line.
35:18
Speaker 1: I think Rayann has done enough over the last few
35:20
Speaker 1: weeks to get the starts, but maybe there's the odd
35:23
Speaker 1: one here or there that he doesn't maybe there's some
35:25
Speaker 1: rotation around with Creepy Junior and ever Nilson, because I'd
35:28
Speaker 1: expect to have an ear to come back in and start.
35:31
Speaker 1: So I am probably now just going to wait a
35:34
Speaker 1: week on Bournemouth's midfield, see how they play out in
35:37
Speaker 1: the weekend's actions, and then try and make a decision
35:39
Speaker 1: before game week twenty nine, but given it's a midweek
35:42
Speaker 1: round again, maybe we see a little bit more rotation
35:45
Speaker 1: because those two games come thick and fast.
35:48
Speaker 2: I mean, I think you summarized it really well. It's
35:49
Speaker 2: difficult to go for any one of them at the moment.
35:52
Speaker 2: If you have them, hold them, be optimistic, but you
35:55
Speaker 2: can't be sure on their minutes because Irela loves Zevan
36:00
Speaker 2: Wilson and so if he gets sixty odd minutes then
36:05
Speaker 2: and he loves Tavinier, So who does the minutes come
36:08
Speaker 2: out from. So I think you're right to say that
36:10
Speaker 2: you can wait and if you have to make a
36:12
Speaker 2: decision this week, I think it's okay to be a
36:14
Speaker 2: little bit skeptical on the minutes and have high error
36:17
Speaker 2: bars and just go, you know what, I don't have
36:19
Speaker 2: to be the first one there.
36:21
Speaker 1: Yeah. A little word on west Ham because the next
36:24
Speaker 1: three or four fixtures really are such a shame because
36:28
Speaker 1: otherwise I would definitely be buying a west Ham attacking assets.
36:31
Speaker 1: Probably some of ill to be honest, because I've been
36:33
Speaker 1: loving the way that he's been playing. But Liverpool up
36:36
Speaker 1: next before Fulham and midweek Manchester City and then aston Villa.
36:39
Speaker 1: Those next forward games are really difficult for west Ham.
36:43
Speaker 1: Jarrah Bowen proving to be the defensive monster of the
36:46
Speaker 1: forward line, picking up defensive contribution points again and now
36:49
Speaker 1: has eight for the season, which is more than anyone
36:52
Speaker 1: else in those attacking in the forward positions. It's difficult, though,
36:56
Speaker 1: isn't it with west Ham? Given those pictures. I think
36:57
Speaker 1: if you have a west Ham asset, if you have
37:00
Speaker 1: Somerville or Bowen or anyone like that in your team,
37:03
Speaker 1: then you hold them, probably because they do have momentum,
37:07
Speaker 1: they have fight, they've got something to be playing for,
37:10
Speaker 1: which is important. But I don't think you're going to
37:12
Speaker 1: invest given the four fixtures that.
37:14
Speaker 2: They have in the coming weeks agreed and nothing else
37:17
Speaker 2: to add. I think if you have them, keep them,
37:20
Speaker 2: otherwise no'll need to invest.
37:22
Speaker 1: Let's move on to your team then, because this is
37:24
Speaker 1: a team that I are very very nearly captain Bruno
37:28
Speaker 1: this week Pras I so nearly did. It was between
37:32
Speaker 1: Sameno and Bruno and I was back and forward and
37:34
Speaker 1: back and forward, and I quite liked the idea of
37:36
Speaker 1: still having the captain to play on Monday night and
37:39
Speaker 1: Everton at home in recent weeks have really struggled despite
37:43
Speaker 1: having a fantastic start to the season at the Hill
37:46
Speaker 1: Dickinson Stadium, recently their home form has been their problem
37:50
Speaker 1: and so I was thinking, well, this is a really
37:53
Speaker 1: good opportunity and in the end glad I didn't because
37:55
Speaker 1: no death con for Bruno in this one, in fact
37:58
Speaker 1: picks up the yellow card and only gets the two,
38:00
Speaker 1: so that's frustrating. In Bomo's owners though, it's five attacking
38:04
Speaker 1: returns and six for him now, so he feels like
38:07
Speaker 1: the right Manchester United midfielder to have. But Bruno is
38:12
Speaker 1: Bruno and next week it could be very different.
38:15
Speaker 2: I think so as well. Yes, so I own both
38:18
Speaker 2: in Bumo and Bruno and happy with in Bumo's points,
38:21
Speaker 2: although I have to say that it wasn't his best game.
38:25
Speaker 2: You know, he did end up getting obviously that attacking return,
38:29
Speaker 2: but and he had a big chance. So when you're
38:31
Speaker 2: paying striker for an attacking team, of course you will
38:35
Speaker 2: get those opportunities. But I did think that Kunia had
38:38
Speaker 2: a very good game. I thought Bruno himself, like he
38:41
Speaker 2: always does, has had a good consistent game. Ahmad had
38:44
Speaker 2: a very poor one. So actually in the next game,
38:46
Speaker 2: I'm expecting Cesco to start in Bumo to be on
38:49
Speaker 2: the right and Cunia to be on the left. We
38:51
Speaker 2: will see. But in terms of Bruno, look last couple
38:54
Speaker 2: of game weeks, I feel Cunia has stolen his thunder
38:58
Speaker 2: a little bit in terms of taking shots, because Bruno
39:00
Speaker 2: has completely dried up in terms of shot taking. His
39:03
Speaker 2: x G two game weeks ago was zero. Last night
39:06
Speaker 2: was zero point zero three, which essentially means he's had
39:09
Speaker 2: one pop shot in the last two games.
39:10
Speaker 1: It got matter, let's take the positives.
39:12
Speaker 2: It agrees it's on a right trajectory, which means he
39:14
Speaker 2: left two pop shots in the next round. I think
39:17
Speaker 2: with Bruno, I think you can say goodbye to defensive
39:20
Speaker 2: contribution points in this new role Undercarrock, He's not getting many,
39:24
Speaker 2: and I think he ended up with one or two
39:27
Speaker 2: out of twelve that he needs. So you know, the
39:29
Speaker 2: whole thing of Bruno's route two points, well, that route
39:33
Speaker 2: is a little bit closed at the moment, but he
39:35
Speaker 2: has more roots in attack. If it's a game against
39:38
Speaker 2: Crystal Palace, which we're talking about next week, which you
39:40
Speaker 2: guys will discuss in the main part, but I'm thinking
39:43
Speaker 2: Crystal Palace have their own problems going on at the moment,
39:45
Speaker 2: so they will they will enjoy playing them. I do
39:49
Speaker 2: think Manorited don't do as well against teams that give
39:52
Speaker 2: them the ball and against Bristal Palace will do the same.
39:55
Speaker 2: Everton did the same. When Manuited have the ball over
39:57
Speaker 2: fifty percent of position. They don't really know what to
39:59
Speaker 2: do do with it, so they'll work on it. They
40:02
Speaker 2: will have another free midweek they will work on it
40:04
Speaker 2: and Palas will have a game midweek. So is Bruno
40:07
Speaker 2: captaincy shout home to Palace. Absolutely, He's my current bus
40:11
Speaker 2: team captain.
40:12
Speaker 1: For Rembalmo because you've got both.
40:16
Speaker 2: Yes, because I just feel Bruno has the route two points.
40:18
Speaker 2: He will still take those set pieces, he will still
40:21
Speaker 2: take that penalty if they win one, and ultimately he
40:24
Speaker 2: can still get that goal. It was in Boomo who
40:26
Speaker 2: got one or an assist this game, but there's no
40:29
Speaker 2: reason to say Bruno won't do it in the next game.
40:32
Speaker 1: Sasca is the interesting one here for me because obviously
40:34
Speaker 1: as a Bruno owner, very happy to hold him and
40:37
Speaker 1: Manchester United are a team that I think are really
40:40
Speaker 1: helpful to us in FPL because the fixtures are nice ish.
40:45
Speaker 1: There's some difficult games in there, but most of the
40:47
Speaker 1: fixtures are quite nice for Mansternite over the next few weeks,
40:50
Speaker 1: starting with Crystal Palace this time, and then like you say,
40:52
Speaker 1: Newcastle have been busy playing lots of matches in the
40:56
Speaker 1: midweek next week. Rilla's defense haven't been solid, Bournemous defense
40:59
Speaker 1: have been solid, and then its leads and then Chelsea's
41:02
Speaker 1: defense who haven't been solid. So I think, you know,
41:04
Speaker 1: on paper, you'd look at those pictures and go okay,
41:07
Speaker 1: well maybe they're a little bit mixed, But the reality
41:09
Speaker 1: of those fixtures is I think there's goals in there
41:11
Speaker 1: for Manchester United. So I'm very happy as a Bruno
41:14
Speaker 1: Fernanderzona to just hold him and I'll probably hold him
41:17
Speaker 1: right the way through to the end of the season
41:18
Speaker 1: barring an injury. But I am looking at Manchester United
41:22
Speaker 1: as the team in the league that are in good form,
41:24
Speaker 1: that don't have any other commitments outside of these last
41:28
Speaker 1: Premier League matches, and thinking this is a team that
41:31
Speaker 1: I would like to double up on now defensively, maybe
41:35
Speaker 1: I could go there. And I think if Dorgo was fit,
41:37
Speaker 1: the world and its wife would have invested in Doorgu
41:39
Speaker 1: over the last few weeks. But Cesco is really intriguing
41:42
Speaker 1: to me because he's one. If Manchester United had a
41:44
Speaker 1: guaranteed starting forward every single week, you just buy them
41:48
Speaker 1: because the fixtures are there. The problem is we haven't
41:51
Speaker 1: had that. But he's coming off the bench and getting
41:53
Speaker 1: points on a regular basis now and there was definitely
41:57
Speaker 1: in his celebration last night a I need to I
42:01
Speaker 1: want you to start me. There was definitely a kind
42:04
Speaker 1: of a Carrick moment of like, I'm here and you
42:08
Speaker 1: could start me up top. I'm not going to do
42:11
Speaker 1: it anytime soon because I think you have to wait
42:13
Speaker 1: until we see a consistent amount of starts from him.
42:17
Speaker 1: But if we start seeing consistent starts from Cesco and
42:21
Speaker 1: then the continuation of these returns that he's been picking
42:23
Speaker 1: up when coming off the bench, he will be very
42:26
Speaker 1: popular to FPR managers. It's just it's too risky to
42:29
Speaker 1: go there now. But in the coming weeks, I think
42:32
Speaker 1: he could be one that we look at if he's starting.
42:34
Speaker 2: Maybe want to monitor. AMD did have a poor game,
42:37
Speaker 2: I felt, and when you know, Ahmad's great in transition,
42:40
Speaker 2: so when you play the tougher teams, I think Ammad's great,
42:42
Speaker 2: but I think when you have when you play a
42:44
Speaker 2: team that sits back. I do think we will start
42:47
Speaker 2: to see this team where Sesco starts. But again, like
42:49
Speaker 2: I said, Man United have two games in four or
42:52
Speaker 2: five days. Again because of the mid week game week,
42:54
Speaker 2: I don't see Sesco starting both.
42:56
Speaker 1: Just a quick word on Patis then, because they're Manchester
42:58
Speaker 1: United's opponents at the WA they played one nail draw
43:02
Speaker 1: against Wolves, maybe that defense was a little bit lucky.
43:05
Speaker 1: Muna's owners considered themselves fortunate that Dean Henderson saves that
43:09
Speaker 1: penalty because if it's not for him, then they obviously
43:12
Speaker 1: concede and the Munho's clean sheet goes again requires you
43:18
Speaker 1: back from midweek. According to Glasner, that will obviously help
43:21
Speaker 1: that back line. But I still don't think that this
43:23
Speaker 1: is a defense that I want to be investing in,
43:24
Speaker 1: particularly ahead of a game against Manchester United.
43:27
Speaker 2: Agreed. I don't get good vibes from the team, from
43:30
Speaker 2: the manager, and I think it's not a team that
43:32
Speaker 2: you want to invest in. Do you need to absolutely
43:34
Speaker 2: fire or cell No, not really. Their fixtures are okay,
43:37
Speaker 2: especially they have a Leeds at home fixture coming up,
43:39
Speaker 2: but I think if you're looking to investor or play,
43:42
Speaker 2: I think consider benching, especially this week.
43:45
Speaker 1: Do you know a player that I'm considering benching or
43:48
Speaker 1: at least losing my temper with, and that is Morgan
43:50
Speaker 1: Rogers because Aston Villa player are one one draw with
43:54
Speaker 1: leads in this one. What a goal by Anton Stack
43:56
Speaker 1: by the way, just a little shout out to him.
43:59
Speaker 1: But Roger, this is so frustrating. I've owned him for
44:02
Speaker 1: weeks and weeks and the fixtures remain lovely, and so
44:05
Speaker 1: because of that you kind of look at him and
44:07
Speaker 1: you go, can't really sell you because the fixtures are really,
44:10
Speaker 1: really nice. But that's one goal in ten matches now
44:13
Speaker 1: for Morgan Rodgers. And of the twenty eight shots that
44:16
Speaker 1: he's had in this period, only one of them has
44:18
Speaker 1: been defined as a big chance. So he's not exactly
44:21
Speaker 1: in great form. Have you got Rogers? What are you doing?
44:24
Speaker 1: Are you as frustrated as I am?
44:26
Speaker 2: I don't have Rogers and every week I go into it,
44:29
Speaker 2: you know, watching Villa's attack. I'm never you know, when
44:32
Speaker 2: it's Chelsea and Joan Pedro Palmer, I'm at the edge
44:35
Speaker 2: of my seat because I'm nervous when it's Rogers. And
44:38
Speaker 2: this is the test really, you know, like the Foremo test.
44:41
Speaker 2: I'm never afraid of Rogers not owning him. Of course
44:44
Speaker 2: he gets goals, he's taking shots, but it's never huge
44:47
Speaker 2: chances like you said, just won in the last ten games.
44:51
Speaker 2: But look, he's still a good option and he's still talismanic.
44:54
Speaker 2: But it's just that Villa don't score that many goals.
44:56
Speaker 2: They don't create as much exchiees. So I think it's
44:58
Speaker 2: okay to have him. He does have a great fixture
45:00
Speaker 2: in game week thirty one. If you were one of
45:02
Speaker 2: those planners and looking at the blank game week, you
45:05
Speaker 2: might want to hold him. He does have a Wolves
45:07
Speaker 2: game this week as well on a Friday, so I
45:10
Speaker 2: think he's okay to hold. But I get the frustration.
45:12
Speaker 1: It'll probably start my Friday hour off badly because it's
45:15
Speaker 1: one of those where I look at him every week
45:17
Speaker 1: and I think, right, there should be an attacking return
45:19
Speaker 1: for you. And then it gets to the end of
45:21
Speaker 1: every game weekend he's got two points and I think,
45:23
Speaker 1: what is the point of this? Every week two points?
45:26
Speaker 1: Because nine times out of ten, somebody on my bench
45:28
Speaker 1: that I've benched to play Morgan Wodgers has got more
45:31
Speaker 1: than two points this week it was SONESSI it's frustrating,
45:35
Speaker 1: but it's Wolves up next in a derby game on
45:38
Speaker 1: Friday evening, so I'm definitely going to give him this one.
45:40
Speaker 1: But I am getting to the point where if I
45:43
Speaker 1: don't start to see the underlying numbers looking better, because
45:45
Speaker 1: it's not just shot, it's big chances, and it's big
45:48
Speaker 1: chances created that I'm interested in. And if I don't
45:50
Speaker 1: see those improving, there's a lot of midfielders that I'd
45:53
Speaker 1: like even more. Some of them come from a team
45:56
Speaker 1: that I was very shocked to see lose this week
46:00
Speaker 1: in Brentford because despite you know how well they've been playing,
46:06
Speaker 1: Brighton have been quite the opposite in recent weeks, but
46:08
Speaker 1: this game was a complete role reversal. Now having spoken
46:11
Speaker 1: to some Brentford fans, they all tell me it's because
46:14
Speaker 1: Michael Coyode missed the game. He's so important. He missed
46:17
Speaker 1: out not just in terms of the long throws, but
46:19
Speaker 1: in terms of the way that they progress the ball,
46:21
Speaker 1: and actually when I had a look at him, his
46:23
Speaker 1: final third touches are the most of in that Brentford side,
46:26
Speaker 1: so he is very, very important the way that they
46:29
Speaker 1: move forward we have to kind of hope that he's okay.
46:32
Speaker 1: I guess then, as Tiago or Dang or anybody else
46:36
Speaker 1: from Brentford's owners, apparently it was a problem with his
46:38
Speaker 1: back as well. Back seem to have been the problem
46:40
Speaker 1: this week. But yeah, as a new Tiago owner, I
46:45
Speaker 1: was very very disappointed. His only goal in the last
46:48
Speaker 1: six weeks now that penalty goal against Newcastle. But in
46:51
Speaker 1: this one he does have one that just goes over
46:54
Speaker 1: the bar. He has a headed opportunity. Maybe he's a
46:56
Speaker 1: little bit unlucky.
46:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Look, I think, like you mentioned,
47:01
Speaker 2: their performance against Arsenal got a lot of us noticing exciting,
47:05
Speaker 2: and then they go out and then they go out
47:07
Speaker 2: and put this performance. I think let's call it a
47:09
Speaker 2: blip for now. Their fixtures are incredible. They play Burnley, Bonemouth,
47:13
Speaker 2: Roles and leads in the next four, which is really
47:16
Speaker 2: really good. So I am hoping the open play thread
47:19
Speaker 2: from Thiago comes back. I can also confess to making
47:22
Speaker 2: an early transfer for Enzo to Dango, who I also
47:25
Speaker 2: wanted in that team as the develop So let's hope
47:28
Speaker 2: that things improve and Coyotes back in business.
47:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, both Dango and Sharda both interesting pickcause I think
47:34
Speaker 1: in the midfield Child obviously doesn't start this one, and
47:37
Speaker 1: I was between the two of them as an Enzo
47:40
Speaker 1: replacement potentially as well, thinking well I would like one
47:43
Speaker 1: of them, but I'm not really sure who. When Shada
47:45
Speaker 1: was benched, I thought, well they go, that's decision made,
47:47
Speaker 1: or just get Dango. Actually Shada comes on at halftime
47:50
Speaker 1: for Quinos Poster and I did think made a difference,
47:55
Speaker 1: like it looked better with Charda there. So I still
47:59
Speaker 1: think Dango is the best pick, but Shard is definitely
48:01
Speaker 1: always there in the back of my mind as an
48:03
Speaker 1: option that you could go to. Let's finish up then
48:06
Speaker 1: on Sunderland versus Fulham, because as a roof So owner,
48:09
Speaker 1: I was banking on this clean sheet. This was a
48:12
Speaker 1: home clean sheet against the Fulham side that haven't been
48:15
Speaker 1: set in the world on fire in terms of goal
48:17
Speaker 1: scored over recent weeks, so I thought, right, here we go,
48:20
Speaker 1: he's at least six points from my goalkeeper. No, that
48:24
Speaker 1: didn't happen in the end, maybe because Mikhayale was forced
48:28
Speaker 1: off in the eleventh minute with a calf injury. That
48:31
Speaker 1: is worrying me as a roof Tayinger moving forwards.
48:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, just like you mentioned with Coyote, I
48:36
Speaker 2: think Mukhala is so important to them both defensively and
48:39
Speaker 2: from an attacking standpoint, so I think that was not ideal.
48:42
Speaker 2: I also played Alderette and it was not great, and
48:45
Speaker 2: after weeks of getting outscored by Mouchiele, I was like, Okay,
48:48
Speaker 2: if he's gone off, Aldoretta should outscore him. He also
48:51
Speaker 2: gets a one pointer, right. I think that the main
48:53
Speaker 2: talking point in this one was Harry Wilson getting defensive
48:56
Speaker 2: contribution points pretty much by halftime, which was incredible for him.
49:00
Speaker 2: Gotten his sister as well, so that was nice and
49:03
Speaker 2: a bonus. So I think that's good. He's going to
49:06
Speaker 2: be popular as well as one of the midfield picks
49:08
Speaker 2: that we've talked about in relation to the Bournemouth ones
49:10
Speaker 2: to the Brentford one, so I think that's those are
49:14
Speaker 2: the real things to talk about. I'm not sure many
49:16
Speaker 2: people are going for sun Olympics at the moment.
49:18
Speaker 1: Anyway, No, I don't think so little shouts around him.
49:21
Speaker 1: And as just before we end, that is his one
49:24
Speaker 1: hundred percent Premier League penalty record maintained thirteen goals from
49:28
Speaker 1: thirteen penalties very impressive. Fulham have Spurs up next and
49:32
Speaker 1: that defense has been very vulnerable. I'll watch it a lot.
49:36
Speaker 1: It's not very good and so that Fulham attack could
49:39
Speaker 1: easily do well in this one. I don't necessarily think
49:41
Speaker 1: we'll see defensive contribution points from Harry Wilson against Spurs though,
49:44
Speaker 1: but maybe we see some attack in return. So yeah,
49:47
Speaker 1: Fulham putting themselves on the radar because their fixtures are
49:50
Speaker 1: really nice moving forward. So if you've sold Harry Wilson
49:53
Speaker 1: in recent weeks, he could be a really nice option
49:55
Speaker 1: to reinvest in that midfield.
49:58
Speaker 2: So we do remember that we you won't have all
50:00
Speaker 2: the big teams playing Champions League and other European competitions
50:04
Speaker 2: this week, but Newcastle, Forest and Palace are in action,
50:06
Speaker 2: and by the end of this week we'll also have
50:08
Speaker 2: the draws for these European competitions, so we'll know who's
50:11
Speaker 2: traveling where and when and how that impacts our FBL
50:15
Speaker 2: decision making. So it might be time for some patients
50:18
Speaker 2: with those transfers.
50:19
Speaker 1: And if you can be patient, Jews, Kelly and I
50:21
Speaker 1: will be back on Thursday. We'll be focusing in on
50:23
Speaker 1: fixt to swings that are happening right now, the teams
50:27
Speaker 1: that are benefiting from them and those that aren't, as
50:29
Speaker 1: well as discussing the best chip strategy to target.
50:32
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Speaker 2: great chatting with you. Good luck for this week.
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Speaker 1: Oh pras fingers crossed for some green arrows and three
50:47
Speaker 1: points for both of our teams. Indeed you like everyone